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Wallace, Ian
Brookline, Massachusetts
Ian
Wallace
Brookline, Massachusetts
Ian Wallace is one of Canada's best known and loved author-illustrators of children's books. Over a long and distinguished career he has published many picture book classics, including 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy' by Gordon Lightfoot, 'Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance', 'Boy of…
Wallace, Clarke
Woodbridge
Clarke
Wallace
Woodbridge
Author of seven books is a lover of the outdoors and enjoys canoeing, skiing and traveling. Among other things. He’s lived at various times in the Dordogne in France where his book Harvest is based. He began writing when taking a year off between high school and university to…
Wallin, Myna
Toronto
Myna
Wallin
Toronto
Myna Wallin is a Toronto-based author and editor with her Masters degree in English Literature from U of T. She is the author of three chapbooks: Vulnerable Positions (2002), The Old Abandonment (2003), and Warning Signs (2005), all with believe your own press. Her first full-…
Walmsley, Ann
Ann
Walmsley
Ann Walmsley is the author of The Prison Book Club (2015 Viking, Penguin Canada), which tells the story of the 18 months she spent participating in a book club in a men's medium-security prison. The Prison Book Club is the winner of the 2016 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-…
Walsh, Helen
Toronto
Helen
Walsh
Toronto
Helen
Helen Walsh’s debut novel, Pull Focus, published September 7, 2021 by ECW Press in North America and October 7, 2021 in the UK. Walsh is also the founder and president of Diaspora Dialogues, a charitable organization that supports writers to turn their craft into a career,…
Walsh, Susan
Wakefield
Susan
Walsh
Wakefield
Susan
My dive into the arts began in theatre and contemporary dance on Canada’s west coast. I performed and earned credits in both from Simon Fraser University, where I also completed a BA and MA in social-political history. A desire to discover the world contributed to a career in…
Walters, Mary W
Toronto
Mary W
Walters
Toronto
Mary W. Walters is the author of four novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of non-fiction. Her most recently published novels are The Adventures of Don Valiente and the Apache Canyon Kid, a novel co-written (word by word, on the phone) with the Santa Fe author John…
Walters, Cecily
Westmount
Cecily
Walters
Westmount
Cecily has been writing since she was a girl. She wrote her first book when she was twelve, an 88 page novella about a girl who could fly like Peter Pan. She has loved fantasy and storytelling ever since. With a background as a screenwriter, Cecily was behind the script of the…
Waltner-Toews, David
Kitchener, ON
David
Waltner-Toews
Kitchener, ON
David is the author or coauthor of more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and recipes. As “Tante Tina,” he has also been known to don a dress and kerchief and to pontificate on the trials of being a Mennonite farm woman in a men’s world gone mad. His science books, as…
Wamboldt, Michelle
Michelle
Wamboldt
Michelle
Michelle Wamboldt is a writer living on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.  Michelle has a BA in English from Dalhousie University and a Journalism Diploma from the Humber College School of Journalism.   Michelle's debut novel, Birth Road, is a work of historical fiction inspired…
Wang, Jack
Ward, Tristis
Fredericton
Tristis
Ward
Fredericton
Tristis Ward holds a BA in English from Dalhousie University where she attended and adored the University of King’s College. She has non-degree courses at two universities (Dal and UNB) in the areas of Anthropology, English, Computer Science, and Theatre. She is an honours…
Ward, Meghan J.
Banff
Meghan J.
Ward
Banff
Meghan J. Ward is a writer, editor, digital content specialist and all-around storyteller based in Banff, Canada (Treaty 7 territory). A fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Meghan has written several books and contributed to anthologies, blogs, award-winning films…
Warland, Betsy
Vancouver
Betsy
Warland
Vancouver
Betsy Warland is the author of a dozen books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose. She is most widely known for her best-selling collection of essays, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing. Her most recent book, Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and…
Warner, Tom
Tom
Warner
Tom Warner was born in Saskatchewan in 1952. He grew up in Prince Albert. He attended, first, the University of Saskatchewan and then the University of Toronto, receiving a BA. In 1971, Tom helped found the first gay community centre in Saskatoon. He moved to Toronto in 1973,…
Warner, Andrea
Vancouver
Andrea
Warner
Vancouver
Andrea
Andrea Warner writes and talks. A lot. She’s the author of Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography (2018) and We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music (2015). She’s a writer, broadcaster, podcaster, and creative consultant who also co-hosts…
Warren, Jane Baird
Ayer's Cliff
Jane Baird
Warren
Ayer's Cliff
Jane Baird
Jane Baird Warren's debut middle-grade book, HOW TO BE A GOLDFISH (Scholastic Canada 2022), was featured on "CBC's Middle-Grade Books to Watch For "and on CTV's Your Morning as one of "Eight Canadian Kids’ Books that make Great Gifts." She is represented by Elizabeth Bennett…
Warsh, Sylvia
Sylvia
Warsh
Sylvia Maultash Warsh was born in Germany to Holocaust survivors. She grew up in Toronto where she earned an MA in linguistics from the University of Toronto. Her parents' experiences during the war sparked an interest in history that has influenced Sylvia’s fiction. She has had…
Waterfall, Rhonda
Rhonda
Waterfall
Rhonda
Rhonda Waterfall studied Sales and Marketing at The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and Creative Writing at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University where she was mentored by Stephen Osborne. For many years she worked in Ad Agencies…
Watt, Kelly
Hamilton, Ontario
Kelly
Watt
Hamilton, Ontario
Kelly Watt’s poetry chapbook, The Weeping Degree, was a recent finalist in the @poetrymesa and Wild Rising Press poetry contest in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (2023) and will be published by Wild Rising Press in June 2024. Her suite of poems Tales of the Faerie #26, was…
Watts, Carl
Carl
Watts
Literary criticism and poetry. 
Wayne, Joyce
Oakville
Joyce
Wayne
Oakville
Joyce
Joyce Wayne's article "All the Kremlin's Men" was chosen for Best Canadian Essays 2021. It first appeared in The Literary Review of Canada. "And Change We Did" also appeared in the Literary Review of Canada in January 2022. Joyce is the author of two novels, The Cook's…
Wearing, Judy
Guelph
Judy
Wearing
Guelph
Writing is hot chocolate and space boots. Hot chocolate because of its source of comfort; a chief manifestation of creativity, agency in the world. It’s a prime way I connect with others and with myself. Space boots because writing is exploration. It’s a road to learning about…
Weaver, Janice
Webb, Margaret
Wolfe Island
Margaret
Webb
Wolfe Island
Margaret Webb is the author of two nonfiction books and also writes feature films, fiction and magazine articles (food, farming, environment, wine, running, adventure travel, profiles, memoir -- okay, just about everything that catches her attention). Her features have appeared…